It is extremely polarized but it’s not about elections. Couple examples of what the president is doing now:

• the constitution is clear that the government (so the Prime Minister and his staff) is responsible for foreign policy. When the president goes abroad he should get his instructions from the government and be accompanied by someone from the government. President ignored this before meeting Trump. He’s basically trying to run parallel foreign policy which is crazy dangerous and damaging
• new judges have to be swear in before the president. it’s just a ceremony but the president decided he will not swear in judges he doesn’t like
• same with ambassadors. according to the constitution those are nominated by the gov but the president decided he will only swear in those he approves

He’s basically using weak points of the constitution (which admittedly is simply badly written) to derail the government and is trying to rule in parallel where possible even though his post was designed as a purely ceremonial one.